Bad ads… and worse….
February 29th, 2008, desaraevWe’ve all see bad ads in magazines, in papers, and on tv either done privately or an agency, but the link below takes ill-advized advertising to a whole new ball field.
Archive for February, 2008
Bart Simpson Tells It Like It Is
February 29th, 2008, Chris
If you like art
February 29th, 2008, JRoyCheck out the 100 photographs that changed the world by Life.
This is why I’m going to be an uncle forever
February 29th, 2008, JRoyMost Popular Pop(ular) Culture Words
February 29th, 2008, JRoy1. Lindsay Lohan - She did a spread for New York magazine in which she appeared nude and mimicking Marylin Monroe’s final photo shoot.
2. Diablo Cody – Nude photos have surfaced….online! dumdum dddaaaaaa!(figures)
3. Juno - Best picture nominee (Written by a stripper who happens to have nude photos online, and shes from Minneapolis! And if you haven’t seen it, see it)
4. Boyd Coddington – Hot Rod legend dies at age 63
5. Drudge Report - Ran a photo of Obama dressed in Somali tribal garb
6. Tilda Swinton – Won the Oscar for “Michael Clayton” Best Supporting Actress
7. Anne Frank - Photo’s of her “One true love” have surfaced online
8. Jessica Alba – Preggers.
9. Florida Power Outage – Wowza
10. Ferrum College – Why was it shut down?
Interesting ad in WIRED magazine about software developers of 37 signals:
February 29th, 2008, desaraev
To read their (the developers) recap of the story:
Click here to read the developers response to the story
To read the original WIRED article:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_signals?currentPage=all
Can’t write an ad? Write a Screenplay.
February 28th, 2008, Len MitschAfter Diablo Cody’s Oscar win for best original screenplay, the Star Tribune interviewed some of her former co-workers.
This is from Rosemary Abendroth at Fallon: Diablo Cody “was a very low-level employee here for a brief time. She was a copy typist, an administrative person. She was never creative.”
Well, I guess there is life after advertising. “Juno,” by the way, is certainly the most entertaining and upbeat of the five Oscar-nominated films. As John Stewart said on Oscar night:
“Thank God for teenage pregnancy.”
What is social media?
February 28th, 2008, desaraevCheck out Robert Scoble’s take on this question here: http://scobleizer.com/2007/02/16/what-is-social-media/
Tracking Results
February 27th, 2008, Holly MatsonHere is the 4th post in the “SEO 101″ series for the MNPR blog: Tracking Results.
Colleges Teaching SEO?
February 27th, 2008, ChrisI felt I had to repost this here, it was by a college intern at an SEO firm in Seattle. You can read the original article here.
Why Won’t You Let Me Study The Internet?
I like to think that I was born just in time to live through the first truly global revolution. I am a 20 year old student who has watched computers and the internet transform the world. Unlike my predecessors, I rarely watch live TV, never listen to the radio and haven’t bought a CD in nearly a decade (last one was Offspring’s Americana). Between my fraternity, my campus, my city’s wifi initiative and my job I have access to at least one broadband wireless internet connection at any given time. I get excited when I get a single letter of normal mail even though I send more e-mails in a single day than my parents do in a month. My world is different than earlier generations, it is functionally held together by the world wide web.
Simultaneously I live in a world driven by education. I attended a pre-preschool (no, that’s not a typo) when I was two years old and have been in school ever since. I am now in my second year of college and just realized I am surrounded by a substantial problem. A major paradox exists in American higher education. Academia is perpetually moving technology forward with cutting edge research while constantly falling behind business in terms of technological commitment.While I am currently expected to do research, collaborate, and turn in my assignments online I am not given the resources to learn specifically about the medium that drives it all. The major universities (with the exception of Stanford) simply haven’t committed to the internet and as such, there is no way to major in something like internet science. I am not offered classes like SEO 290 or Social Networking 300.
But why not?
I believe the reason I can’t formally study the internet is because there are no formal teachers available. Everyone making a difference in the industry is just that, in the industry. They are not retired and certainly not teaching at universities. It seems that my generation will have to wait until tomorrow to learn about the technological force that is so prevalent today.
My solution?
The closest I have found to studying the internet is to study Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Although I can’t do it at school, I have realized that by studying SEO I am effectively able to study the internet on a high level. Social media hints at its culture, viral marketing unveils the influencers and link building demonstrates the internet’s architecture. Search engine optimization is not limited to tips and tricks, it is intimately intertwined with the web itself.
While I wait for academia to catch up with my peers, the first internet generation, I will continue to practice, study and uncover SEO techniques. That is precisely why I intern here. Maybe one day I will have learned enough to become one of the university professors that I now so desperately need.